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A brief history of how the last Shogunate of Japan got utterly fucked:

Alright so sit down and listen, I just read about 80 pages of shit I should have read 2 months ago so I need to share the love, this is what I got from the reading I was supposed to do ages ago:

  • Tokugawa Shogunate accepted treaty with Harris in 1858, causing the court to be ANGERED and like WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT TOKUGAWA? WE FUCKING HATE WESTERNERS! DISAPPOINT!
  • In order to repair the rift between Shogunate and Emperor, Choshu sidles in and tries to get some political power by acting as a mediator between Tokugawa and Emperor.
  • UNFORTUNATELY, Satsuma gave the court a better deal, became the top-dogs of mediation between Tokugawa and Emperor.
  • Choshu then go 110% hard and adopt a daimyo-wide stance of WE FUCKING LOVE THE EMPEROR (=LOYALISTS!).
  • Satsuma gets real mad and stages a military coup against the court, seizing the court in the process.
  • Choshu does some real dumb shit in Kyoto and  burns like 2/3 of the city.
  • The court acknowledge that Choshu is now full-retard and tells Choshu that you never go full retard before declaring it an enemy of the court.
  • Meanwhile in Choshu, they kicking themselves like god we are fucking retarded, and then fucking British and Co.™ try to invade their fucking daimyo, purchases weapons from Western civilization while being like FUCK THE WEST MAN THESE GUYS SUCK.
  • MEANWHILE Tokugawa gettin’ real tired of this shit decides to just say fuck it and fuck up the Choshu cause they want to suck some Emperor D real bad, so they actually fuck up Choshu real hard.
  • At the end of 1864, after getting completely fucked by Tokugawa Keisho, a fucking civil war breaks out and the loyalists win.
  • Tokugawa comes back in 1866 like GUYS I NEED TO SUCK SOME MORE EMPEROR D and attacks them but gets utterly fucked in return, not realizing that Choshu has in fact been sucking the Emperor’s D harder and faster than Tokugawa can even hope to suck the D.
  • As a further kick in the pants, Satsuma, who up until now fucking hated Choshu, is like hey Choshu, we’ll join up with you and destroy the Tokugawa Shogunate.
  • Choshu is like K BRO and they proceed to do so.
  • Tokugawa is utterly fucked and gives up his power as a shogun and basically that’s how the last shogun of japan was trounced.
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  • i’m like 99.9830921% sure that is it canon that
  • merlin is in love with arthur, has been in love with arthur since like episode 2 of season 1
  • arthur notices him and merlin getting too close towards the end of season 1 (hello 1x04), freaks out a little bit internally
  • kisses gwen in 2x02, tells himself this is what he wants
  • merlin notices them both and tries to encourage it, pushing it on arthur because he think it’s what arthur wants, becomes #1 arwen fanboy
  • arthur takes it as merlin not being interested
  • convinces himself that gwen is good for him, at least she wants him, etc
  • meanwhile merlin obviously pining away
  • arthur more subtlely pining away
  • gwen having her feelings “that will never fade” still on the insides
  • NO ONE IS HAPPY
  • NOTHING IS HAPPY IN CAMELOT

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